Top Ten Side Effects of Switching to Linux, Sep 28, 2007

Studies done by a prestigious think tank in Silicon Valley have identified the most common behavioral changes in people who have switched to Linux. They were nice enough to share their information with us. According to them, these are the ten most frequent side effects of Linux use with us.

Linux Online has obtained internal memos from the Ubuntu project regarding the codenames they choose for different releases of Ubuntu. The public is familiar with names like Dapper Drake and Feisty Fawn, but here, for the first time, we're providing the names that were debated by the development team but were eventually rejected as official Ubuntu version codenames.

Spanish newspaper El País is reporting that Linus Torvalds has been nominated for the prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize (Premio Príncipe de Asturias) in the technical and scientific research category.

According to Steve Langasek and Colin Watson, release managers for the Debian GNU/Linux project, the distribution's testing version, named 'Sarge', has been frozen.

Hispalinux, a national association of Spanish GNU/Linux users has threatened legal action against the country's central government over the inability of Linux users to access the Social Security's web services.

A controversy has emerged over a story written by Maureen O'Gara in Linux Business Week dealing with the SCO vs. IBM case.

A website and Wiki has been set up to solve the sometimes frustrating hardware support problems that Linux users run into. Florian Becker, initiator of Linux-Driver.org, has high hopes for the project.